Rarefied

Definitions: Rarefied

Rarefied

Adjective

1. Having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air".

2. Reserved for an elite group.

3. Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept".

Date "rarefied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Synonyms: Rarefied

Synonyms: exalted (adj), high-flown (adj), high-minded (adj), idealistic (adj), lofty (adj), noble-minded (adj), rare (adj), rarified (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Rarity	Rarefied. Verb:; unsubstantial; uncompact, incompressed; rarefiable.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Rarefied Gas Dynamics (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Rarefied Air (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Rarefied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.13% of the time. "Rarefied" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	84.13%	53	46,657
Lexical Verb (past participle)	9.52%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (past tense)	6.35%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	63	N/A

Expressions using "rarefied": become rarefied ♦ rarefied air ♦ rarefied gas dynamics ♦ rarefied gas flow. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "rarefied": over-rarefied, still-rarefied.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "rarefied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		само за посветени, само за избрани, възвишен (elate, grand, great, high, high minded, high-toned, lofty, magnanimous, noble, soaring, spheric, sublime, supernal), езотеричен (esoteric). (various references)

Danish		system hvor luften er udpumpet (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere), strømning af fortyndet gas (rarefied gas flow), lavtryksystem (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere), fortyndede gasser dynamik (rarefied gas dynamics). (various references)

Dutch		onderdruksysteem (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere), lage-dichtheidsstroming (rarefied gas flow), bewegingsleer van niet-kontinue media (rarefied gas dynamics). (various references)

Finnish		ohut (thin), ohentunut. (various references)

French		fignolée. (various references)

German		verdünnt (dilute, dilutes, rarefield, rarefies, thins), exclusiv (exclusively), dünn (filiform, fine, finely, flimsy, gaunt, lank, lean, rare, skinny, sparse, sparsely, spindly, tabular, tenuous, tenuously, thin, thinly, thinn, watery, weak). (various references)

Greek		ροή αραιού αερίου (rarefied gas flow), σύστημα ατμοσφαιρικής εκκένωσης (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere), αερομένοσ αέρασ (rarefied air), δυναμική των αραιών αερίων (rarefied gas dynamics). (various references)

Indonesian		keropos (hollow, porous, rotten, spongy). (various references)

Italian		sistema di trasporto in atmosfera rarefatta (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere), sistema atmosfera rarefatta (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere), dinamica dei gas rarefatti (rarefied gas dynamics), corrente di gas rarefatto (rarefied gas flow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		稀薄 (diluted, lean, rarified, sparse, thin, weak), 希薄 (diluted, lean, rarified, sparse, thin, weak). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きはく (diluted, drive, lean, rarified, soul, sparse, spirit, thin, vigor, weak). (various references)

Manx		thannit (thinned). (various references)

Pig Latin		arefiedray.(various references)

Portuguese		sistema de transporte em atmosfera rarefeita (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere), dinâmica dos gases rarefeitos (rarefied gas dynamics), corrente de gases rarefeitos (rarefied gas flow). (various references)

Russian		разреженный (expanded, rare, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razređen (diluted, rare). (various references)

Spanish		enrarecido. (various references)

Swedish		lufttomt transportsystem (evacuated system, transport system in rarefied atmosphere). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งมีอ็อกซิเจนอยู่น้อยกว่าปกติ. (various references)

Ukranian		розріджений (attenuate, attenuated, tenuous), витончений (airy, attic, bijou, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), піднесений (applausive, elevated, eminent, exalted, grand, great, high minded, high-flown, sublime). (various references)

Welsh		tenau (lean, sensitive, slender, thin). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "rarefied": ultrararefied. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Rarefied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arrecife, rareafied, rarefield, rareified, reprofiled. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "rarefied" (pronounced re"rufīd)
4	-u f ī d	recertified, russified, vilified.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-r-r"
	-1 letter: ferried, readier, refired, refried.
	-2 letters: aeried, aerier, arider, deafer, dearer, dearie, defier, faerie, faired, fairer, feared, fearer, feriae, raider, reader, reared, redear, rediae, refire, reread.
	-3 letters: aerie, afire, aider, aired, airer, darer, deair, defer, direr, drear, drier, eared, eider, erred, fader, fared, farer, feria, fired, firer, freed, freer, frere, friar, fried, frier, irade, rared, redia, refed, refer, rider, rifer.
	-4 letters: aide, arid, dare, deaf, dear, deer, defi, dere, dire, dree, eide, fade, fair, fard, fare, fear, feed, fere, fiar, fire, frae, free, idea, ired, raid, rare, read, rear, rede, reed, reef, reif, ride, rife.
	-5 letters: aid, air, are, arf, dee, die, ear, era, ere, err, fad, far, fed, fee, fer, fid, fie, fir, ire, rad, red, ree, ref, rei, ria, rid, rif.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-r-r"
	+1 letter: firedrake, refrained.
	+2 letters: fairleader, firedrakes, reaffirmed.
	+3 letters: fairleaders, fraternized.
	+4 letters: airfreighted, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, foreordained, intergrafted, proliferated, refrigerated, ultrarefined.
	+5 letters: ferricyanides, ferrocyanides, prefabricated, tetrafluoride, ultrararefied.
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